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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>To their defense, AMD's use of the term ROP didn't last for long.
>K8 manuals use the better term micro-ops. I don't have K7 manual to
>look, but it seems to me that it uses the same terminology as K8.

I have come across ROP (and its expansion RISC op) relatively
recently, but maybe it was in third-party material.  Their evil deeds
of the past come back to haunt them:-).

- anton
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'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>